European Environment Agency
European bathing water quality
Annual classification of every designated bathing water in Europe as excellent, good, sufficient or poor, based on four-year series of intestinal enterococci and Escherichia coli measurements.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from European Environment Agency, used under European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency
- Website
- https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/europes-seas-and-coasts/assessments/state-of-bathing-water
- Geographic coverage
- European Union plus Albania and Switzerland — ~22,000 bathing waters
- Temporal coverage
- 1990 onwards
- Update frequency
- annual
- Formats
- csv, geojson, xlsx
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- quality, contaminant, ecosystem